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Japan Marks 80th Anniversary Of Atomic Bombing In Hiroshima

JAPAN – Japan marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima with a solemn memorial on Wednesday.

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JAPAN – Japan marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima with a solemn memorial on Wednesday.

About 55,000 people, including guests from a record 120 countries, observed a moment of silence at 8:15 am, the exact time the bomb was dropped in 1945.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba laid a wreath and called for global nuclear disarmament.

The uranium bomb killed some 78,000 instantly but by year’s end, the death toll had reached 140,000.

The U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki 3 days later.

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